Our people are extraordinary.

Arts & Sciences has over 1,000 faculty and staff who utilize their diverse expertise in the pursuit of research breakthroughs, gaining a deeper understanding of the world's most pressing issues and serving as mentors of the next generation.

select honors from our faculty

9 Elected Members of the National Academy of Sciences
18 Guggenheim Fellowship recipients
18 elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Ana Babus

Economics

Aylin Bademsoy

Marlon M. Bailey

African and African-American StudiesWomen, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Sarah Baitzel

Anthropology

Thomas Bakupog

Chemistry

Kara Baldus-Mehrmann

Music

​David Balota

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Darwin Baluran

Sudeshna Bandyopadhyay

Economics

Mary Jo Bang

English

​Deanna Barch

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Joe Barcroft

Romance Languages and Literatures

Anne Baril

Philosophy

Pamela Barmash​​

Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies

Jonathan Barnes

Chemistry

Cynthia Barounis

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

​Marisa Barragán-Peugnet​​​

Romance Languages and Literatures

Heather Barton

Biology

Colin Bassett

College Writing Program

​Margaret Guinn Batten​

English

​​John Baugh

Psychological & Brain Sciences

​Barbara Baumgartner​​

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

​Anne Margaret Baxley

Philosophy

Roger Beachy

Biology

​Lois Beck

Anthropology

April Bednarski

Biology

​Roya Beheshti Zavereh

Mathematics

​Yehuda Ben-Shahar

Biology

Deanna Benjamin

College Writing Program

​Housni Bennis

Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies

​Nancy Berg

Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies

Cory Berkland

Chemistry

Marcus Berliant

Economics

​Iver Bernstein​

HistoryAfrican and African-American Studies

Ruth Berson

College Writing Program

Timm Betz

Anna F. Bialek

John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics

Vladimir Birman

Chemistry

​Joshua Blodgett

Biology

Kate Bloomquist

College Writing Program

Eliot Boden

Stefanie Boese

College Writing Program

​Ryan Bogdan

Ian Bogost

Film and Media Studies

Michele Boldrin

Economics

Tim Bono

Psychological & Brain Sciences

​Daniel Bornstein

History

Arpita Bose​​

Biology

​Carlos Botero

Biology

​John Bowen

Anthropology

Zachary Bowersox

Political Science

Christina L. Boyd

​Pascal Boyer

Anthropology

​Alexander S. Bradley

Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Cindy Brantmeier

Global Studies

​Todd Braver

Psychological & Brain Sciences

​J. Dillon Brown

English

​Eric Brown

Philosophy

​J. Andrew Brown

Romance Languages and Literatures

Rachel Brown

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

​William Bubelis

Classics

James H. Buckley

Physics

Francisco (Paco) Buera

Economics

​Julie Bugg

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Sebastian Buhts

Music

​Patrick Burke

Music

​Colin Burnett

Film and Media Studies

Andrew C. Butler

Education

Daniel Butler

Political Science

Paul Byrne

Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Recent Faculty Grants & Awards

Jeffrey M. Zacks, associate chair and professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences and professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $250,000 grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation to study event cognition “in the wild.” This project will take the research into the world, where people actually experience events. Key to the research is “Unforgettable,” an infrastructure developed over the past decade by collaborator Simon Dennis, of the University of Melbourne, which helps people enrich and better understand their own memories while collecting data for a scientific exploration of event comprehension and memory.

See what our faculty are working on now

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Acree awarded entrepreneurial leadership, innovation fellowship

William Acree, vice dean of interdisciplinary initiatives and innovation and a professor of Spanish, has been named a fellow with the Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership.

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